IMS Project

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Intelligent Multimedia System for Public Participation The objective of the IMS project is to develop and test modern information technologies, towards an Intelligent Multimedia System (IMS), to support public and technical consultation in decision-making. Typical target processes are Environmental Impact Assessment, Master Plans and Land Use Plans; but may apply also to voting in Elections and Referenda. IMS is a CITIDEP project, who implemented a first version (1995-1998) using the case of the solid urban waste incinerator for S. João da Talha, Portugal. This project was part of Pedro Ferraz de Abreu's PhD research at MIT, USA, and supported by the Portuguese Ministry of Environment (DGA), the Environmental Dept of FCT- UNL and CITIDEP. A large team of researchers was engaged in the experiment. CITIDEP is now developing IMS - II, a second pilot project, with a new version of the IMS prototpype, in partnership with ISCSP at the LabTec CS/e-Planning.

IMS project documents

• Leaflet IMS 2009 (pt)

• Apresentação do Projecto IMS - Eleições Europeias (IMS - II)

• Project presentation (IMS - I)
  
  
• System Summary Description (IMS - I)
  
  
• System Tour Slides (IMS Prototype)

• Published:
  
  
  • Ferraz de Abreu, P. (2002), "New Information Technologies in Public Participation: A Challenge to Old Decision-making Institutional Frameworks". Ph.D. Thesis. MIT , Dept. Urban Studies and Regional Planning, Cambridge, USA, May 2002 .
    
    
  • Ferraz de Abreu, P., Joanaz de Melo, J. (2000), "Introducing New Information Technologies in Public Participation: Technology is the Easy Part", in Ferraz de Abreu & Joanaz de Melo (eds). 2000. Public Participation and Information Technologies 1999. CITIDEP & DCEA-FCT-New University of Lisbon, Portugal. 599 pages, pp393-406.
    
    
  • Ferraz de Abreu, P. (1998), "Projecto IMS - Sistema Multimedia Inteligente para Apoio á Consulta Técnica e Pública", INETI & DGA-MARN & DCEA-FCT-UNL & CITIDEP, Portugal, Janeiro 1998. 160pg.
    
    
  • Ferraz de Abreu, P., Chito, B, (1997) "Current Challenges in EIA Evaluation in Portugal, and the Role of New Information Technologies: -- The Case of S. João da Talha's Incinerator for Solid Urban Waste", in Machado, J. Reis & Ahern, Jack (eds). 1997. Environmental Challenges in an Expanding Urban World and the Role of Emerging Information Technologies. National Centre for Geographical Information (CNIG), Lisboa, Portugal. 538 pages, pp. 1-11.
    
    

• Final Report: (IMS - I, in portuguese)
  
  
  Introdução

  O Problema

  Metodologia

  Fases de Execução

  O Sistema

  Taxonomias

  A Experiência

  Discussão dos Resultados

  Conclusões

  Agradecimentos

  Referencias

  Anexos

  
  

• Working documents

Experiment: Public Consultation on Internet

• Interviews with Portuguese candidates to European Elections 2009

• Questions and Answers on the EIA for the S. João da Talha incinerator (in portuguese) | System Survey (in portuguese)

Related Entities

• MIT - DUSP (Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Urban Studies & Planning Department)
  
  
• CITIDEP (Research Center for Information Technologies in Support of Participatory Democracy)
  
  
• DGA (Direção Geral do Ambiente) [Portuguese Environmental Agency]
  
  
• IPAMB (Instituto de Promoção Ambiental) [Environmental Ministry Dept in charge of Public Consultation]
  
  
• VALORSUL (Valorização e Tratamento de Resíduos Sólidos da Área Metropolitana de Lisboa - Norte, S.A.) [Proponent of the S. João da Talha incinerator]

Other CITIDEP Projects: IT for Grassroots | Expo 98 | Regionet | Public Access to Environmental Info | ICPPIT99

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